Tokugawa Ieyasu's Role In Korean History

After 1500, world regions such as West Africa, East Asia and South America were joined together into one worldwide trade system, for the first time in history, each area of the world now interacted with one another. Without question, China was the most leading country in the world in the 15th century. A great example of China’s amazing abilities at the time can be seen in the amazing voyages of the Chinese admiral Zeng He, between 1405 and 1433. His Muslim faith and respected position in government reminds us of the ethnic and religious diversity of the huge Chinese empire. He led fleets of Chinese boats across the Indian Ocean to trade in India, Southeast Asia, Arabia, and East Africa. These were, by far, the largest fleets in the history
The first half of the twentieth century in Korean history is marked by two harsh and painful experiences, the Japanese occupation between 1910 and 1945 and the Korean War of 1950 through 1953. These events rule the total of every national mind for many years. The legacy left by the colonial period is complex and filled with feeling of love, hate, guilt, and many others. The Japanese colonialists' push toward modernization brings extreme technological, and as a result social, advances, such as the building of infrastrue and the development of modern school systems. The Japanese also carry out the first modern archeological digging jobs of ancient Korean sites, royal graves, temples, ceramic kiln and preservation of their artifacts. On the flip side is the question of the colonialists' desires and their methods in these cultural efforts, and more seriously, war crimes of torture, rape, and killing. In the postcolonial period, Korea struggles with the issue of how to create an agreement between the positive developments of the colonial time in history and the unforgettable animal-like violence, embarrassment, and